XCOM: Long War Ironman Impossible #5 - Bloody Empire
4Today we'll be playing XCOM: Long War Ironman Impossible. So come and experience what is likely to be quite a ride. This will actually be my first time playing at the impossible difficulty, and by extension the impossible ironman difficulty.
Did you enjoy this episode? Why don't you check out the source of my inspiration for it: the amazing Beaglerush's famed Ironman Impossible series. The humor is amazing, and his voice is like butter to the ears.
Also be sure to check out the amazing Long War mod which has earned its place as being the quintessential way of playing XCOM. We're playing version B15f2.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is described by Wikipedia as follows:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactical video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The game is a "reimagined" remake of the 1994 cult classic strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense) and a reboot of MicroProse's 1990s X-COM series.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released in North America, Europe, and Australia for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in October 2012. An "Elite Edition", containing all previously released downloadable content, was released as a Mac OS X exclusive by Feral Interactive in April 2013. In June 2014, Feral released both XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its expansion pack XCOM: Enemy Within for Linux. A port for iOS was released in June 2013 and an Android conversion was released in May 2014. An expansion pack, titled XCOM: Enemy Within, was released in November 2013. A bundle containing both Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within was launched on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation Vita in March 2016 under the title XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus.
Set in the near future during an alien invasion of Earth, the game puts the player in control of an elite multinational paramilitary organization called XCOM and is tasked with defending the Earth. The player commands troops in the field in a series of turn-based tactical missions; between missions, the player directs the research and development of new technologies from recovered alien technology and captured prisoners, expands XCOM's base of operations, manages XCOM's finances, and monitors and responds to alien activity.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown was critically acclaimed, with several reviewers commenting on the game's difficulty, replayability, and addictiveness. A number of publications, including GameSpy, GameTrailers and Giant Bomb, named it Game of the Year. A sequel to the game, titled XCOM 2, was released on February 5, 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown
Long War is a fan-made partial conversion mod for the turn-based tactics video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its expansion, XCOM: Enemy Within. It was first released in early 2013, and it exited beta at the end of 2015. Almost every aspect of the original game is altered, creating a longer, more complex campaign that presents players with more strategic choices and customization options. Long War adds a significant number of new soldier classes, abilities, weapons, armors, and usable items, and also introduces new features, including soldier fatigue and improvements to alien units over the course of the game.
The mod was developed by Long War Studios, a team that came to include four core members, with assistance from 29 contributors, 20 voice actors, and three members of Firaxis Games, the developer of Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within. According to one of the mod's core developers, Amineri, the mod started as a series of changes to the base game's configuration file, and grew more expansive as the team's capabilities grew. By the end of the mod's development, the team was working directly with the Unreal Development Kit, and had created a Java-based tool to help manage the changes that the mod was making.
Long War has received praise from both video game journalists and from the developers at Firaxis. It has been downloaded over 840,000 times, by over 500,000 different users. Firaxis took the popularity of Long War to add built-in support for modding into the sequel XCOM 2, and used Long War Studios to provide initial add-ons for the game at release. Long War Studios, now known as Pavonis Interactive, have announced plans to release Long War 2 for XCOM 2.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_War_(mod)
As mentioned previously, although the full version of the Long War mod has been released, we’ll be continuing with the version that I started this playthrough with due to the technical issues of trying to switch versions in the middle of a playthrough of Long War.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within are both available for purchase on Steam. The Long War mod can be downloaded from the Mod Nexus here: http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/88/?
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